217335 - microsoft.com - backslashed URL

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[chris hofmann]

had this report come in over the webmaster alias....

Was not sure who to send this mail to so, I sent it to you.

I use Mozilla as my regular browser and was looking at the above page.

I wanted to view the video tour (of Kelly and Bill) but the link didn't
work, due to a backward slash in the url.

However viewed in IE the link works perfectly.

Is it possible for you to recreate this error, and is it something to do
with Mozilla? Or is it a programming anomaly with the Microsoft site

what a funky url....

http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/connected/\smallbusiness\connected\video\default.asp

which it looks like we convert to:

http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/connected/%5Csmallbusiness%5Cconnected%5Cvideo%5Cdefault.asp

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

not a dupe, but related to Bug 217161  	microsoft.com - URLs with invalid "\"
(backslash)
http://www.microsoft.com/mobilize

-> Tech Evangelism

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

page is 404 now.